Ekaterina Beliakova
fluxflow.bsky.social
Ekaterina Beliakova
@fluxflow.bsky.social
Scent/flavor-centric awareness chronicles. S/Cent/sorial reflections, verbal & visual spaces, in social movement context
SF Bay🌁 & beyond
#OlfactoryChronotope #FluxFlowFufluns
https://www.instagram.com/skinandscentsaga
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New from me @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social + Justin-Casimir Braun:

Amsterdam believed that it could build a #predictiveAI for welfare fraud that would ALSO be fair, unbiased, & a positive case study for #ResponsibleAI. It didn't work.

Our deep dive why: www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/11/1...
Inside Amsterdam’s high-stakes experiment to create fair welfare AI
The Dutch city thought it could break a decade-long trend of implementing discriminatory algorithms. Its failure raises the question: can these programs ever be fair?
www.technologyreview.com
June 11, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Olfactory neuroscientists have known for a while that their stimuli stink. A new analysis illuminates the extent of the problem.

By @callimcflurry.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/olfaction/sm...
Smell studies often use unnaturally high odor concentrations, analysis reveals
It’s time to fashion olfactory neuroscience stimuli based on odor concentrations in the wild, say study investigators Elizabeth Hong and Matt Wachowiak.
www.thetransmitter.org
April 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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This is what organizing over 1,200 events in a few weeks looks like.

This is what democracy looks like.

Join the more than half a million of us who will be taking to the streets tomorrow to stand up against Trump’s unprecedented power grab: handsoff2025.com?SQF_SOURCE=i...
April 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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New preprint alert! How do we process uncertainty, and how do neurometabolites shape this?🧠Here we combine computational modeling + 7T MRS to answer these questions: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
With Peter Thestrup Waade, Chris Mathys, Frederike Petzchner, @beckyneuro.bsky.social & others! 🧵(1/4)
Neurochemical markers of uncertainty processing in humans
How individuals process and respond to uncertainty has important implications for cognition and mental health. Here we use computational phenotyping to examine individualised 'uncertainty fingerprints...
www.biorxiv.org
February 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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This.
March 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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The 2025 volume of the Annual Review of Medicine is now online. Check out the table of contents arevie.ws/4hfaPd1
January 31, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Will be in San Francisco beginning february for the @IVADO_Qc workshop on large language models and #transformers at Berkley’s
Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing.

simons.berkeley.edu/programs/spe...

Please DM if you want to chat.
Special Year on Large Language Models and Transformers, Part 2
This is the second part in a special year-long program on large language models and transformers that spans the 2024–2025 academic year. This program's overarching goal is to try to understand the ong...
simons.berkeley.edu
January 23, 2025 at 11:23 AM
The earliest forms of life discovery - thrombolite-building microorganisms, the world's earliest living fossil.
#Thrombolites #YalgorupNationalPark #Pindjarup #Microbio #LivingFossil
#WesternAustralia
#FragrantLandscapes #FloatingWorld2025
#FluxFlowFufluns #OlfactoryChronotope
January 4, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Oct '24

#URochesterResearch identifies a brain-based biomarker of resilience to pain persistence

Dr. Paul Geha, et al, found properties of a major white matter bundle in the brain can predict long-term outcome of an acute bout of low-back pain

@elife.bsky.social
➡️ doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

10/12
December 30, 2024 at 8:34 PM
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Un memecoin qui fait battre les cœurs ❤️: comment la petite Mira, atteinte d'une tumeur cérébrale rare, a mobilisé toute la communauté crypto et fait grimper un token à 80M$ de capitalisation en quelques heures 🚀

On t’explique cette histoire qui nous a touché 👇
December 27, 2024 at 9:29 AM
Happy Hoppy Holidays,
Happy Anniversaries & fineries
Happy Hoppy discoveries - in peaceful respite,
Getting geared up for the upcoming year-long fights,
Intimate & at large.
@OutOfTheBarrelLosGatos
@NorthParkBeerCo
@NZHopsLtd
@Official_Bract_Brewers
www.instagram.com/p/DEEQxagpCK...
December 27, 2024 at 3:29 AM
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“A Shot in the Arm” is a must-watch exposé on vaccine denial and RFK Jr.’s deadly role in the Samoan measles outbreak.

Now streaming FREE on PBS.org and the PBS App. This documentary includes damning evidence and footage of RFK Jr.

Call your senators—urge them to watch and take action!
December 27, 2024 at 2:09 AM